Qazigund Residents Protest Against Non-Availability of Drinking Water

The residents of Kanchloo kund area of Qazigund on Tuesday morning staged a protest against the department of public health engineering (PHE) against the non- availability of drinking water in the area.

Sources told The Kashmiriyat that the protesters including women and children assembled in Sub Division Qazigund and staged a protest against the department of public Health engineering (PHE).

The protesters were demanding restoration of the water supply in the area which is blocked for several weeks.

“We have no drinking water for past several weeks. We are forced to drink dirty water of nearby streams.The department is not doing

anything to mitigate our suffering,” said Abdul Hameed Bakshi a local resident.

“We have been forced to come on the Roads, so that officials hear our grievances.We hope that the administration will ensure we are provided water, otherwise we will be forced to take extreme steps,” he added.

Meanwhile when contacted to the concerned official in PHE Department, he said that “there is some technical fault in the water pipe in the area.

Our employees are on job and hopefully they will restore water will be restore in area today.